South Dakota Road Trip

So Jake wanted to take those the three dogs that he was training home. The guy he was working with seemed to be shady and so we didn’t want to deal with him anymore. So being a three day weekend we decided to take the 15 hour drive to Wessington South Dakota. We left early Saturday morning, 5:00 in the morning early. We got going and got into Parley’s cannon when one of the dogs decided he needed to go to the bathroom and did not want to wait for an outside. Our car stunk terribly. We pulled of on the side of the freeway and started cleaning it up. Luckily we had put down a tarp and old blanket of Jakes. We also brought some disinfecting wipes so we were able to really get it clean. We unfortunately had to throw away the blanket. There was no saving it and to put it back in the car would only cause the stench we’d spent the last hour cleaning up. After that accident we were good and did not have another one.

Since we were taking three dogs in my tiny Toyota we were in a hurry to get up there and drop the dogs off. We only stopped for gas, to eat and use the bathroom. We ended up meeting one of the Lodge employees about 20 miles from our destination, but we didn’t mind because it was six miles from a little town called Fort Thompson. The town had a little lake and a small hotel. You could tell most the people who stayed there were fisherman because every single automobile (except ours) was attached to a boat. We had dinner at the casino because it was the only restaurant still open. Then we decided we just wanted to get home so we got up the next day and drove home. Since most of the time we spent in the car I didn’t get many pictures and the few we did get are while we’re driving

Here’s a picture of the lake.

There were huge sunflower fields, most had lost the yellow petals, but they were still pretty cool.

Around Rapid City there were many hills

Me and Jake would see so many of these little ponds and would think it would be nice to have a house right on the pond. This picture is not one of the better ponds, but still there were so many.